Artificial neural networks for the resolution of dopamine and serotonin complex mixtures using a graphene-modified carbon electrode

This work explores an electrode modified with electrochemically reduced graphene oxide (ERGO) for the voltammetric resolution of mixtures of neurotransmitters and its most common interferents. This enhanced sensitivity device coupled with advanced chemometric tools, such as artificial neural network...

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Authors: Bonet-SanEmeterio, Marta|||0000-0002-5076-8136, González-Calabuig, Andreu|||0000-0002-6325-138X, Valle, Manel del|||0000-0002-1032-8611
Format: article
Publication Date:2019
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repository:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:255125
Online Access:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/255125
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1002/elan.201800525
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Graphene
Dopamine
Serotonin
Chemometrics
Voltammetry
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Summary:This work explores an electrode modified with electrochemically reduced graphene oxide (ERGO) for the voltammetric resolution of mixtures of neurotransmitters and its most common interferents. This enhanced sensitivity device coupled with advanced chemometric tools, such as artificial neural networks (ANNs), is able to resolve and quantify complex mixtures with overlapped signals. In this case, it has been applied to dopamine (DA), serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) and its main physiologic interferents, ascorbic acid (AA) and uric acid (UA), which play a relevant role in human body. The results obtained for individual analysis make evident a higher sensitivity of the developed sensor than the unmodified electrode. Furthermore, it has been attained an ANN response model with good correlation ability allowing the separation and quantification of each compound with comparison slope of predicted vs. expected concentrations with correlation better than 0.974. In short, the developed ERGO-modified sensor not only improved the signal but it also permitted resolving and quantifying each compound in complex mixtures when the proper chemometric treatment was used.